Nucleic-Acid-Based Typing

  • Paul Singleton
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Abstract

The microbiological term strain refers to an organism or (~homogeneous) population of organisms, within a given species, that can be distinguished from other members of the same species. Strains reflect the heterogeneity of a species.

Keywords

Clinical Microbiology Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis rpoB Gene Intergenic Space Region Strain H37Rv 
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